[PRCo] DuMont

[Bob Rathke]

Derrick wrote:

> > -       And on TV, only the Dumont Network station.
>
> Clarke Ingram, a well-known Pittsburgh radio personality, has done a web
> site on the history of the DuMont network:
> http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumont.htm
>
> You might be amused to know that after DuMont largely folded the remaining
> assets became MetroMedia, whose broadcast assets were later purchased by
> Rupert Murdoch as the genesis of his new Fox network.

Bruce DuMont (son of the network founder) is director of the Museum of
Broadcast in Chicago.  He also moderates a syndicated radio news/talk
program that may be heard in Pittsburgh.

If you're ever in Chicago, don't miss the Museum of Broadcast.  They've got
all kinds of displays and artifacts - even things like a camera and lights
from the Chicago studio used for the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960.

Bob 1/18/03